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BY P. GRAY MEEK.:
ink Slings.
—Once more the fall of Port Arthur
bas lingered in the lap of the summary
Russians.
—There is a rumor in circulation to the
effect that Judge LOVE will be a candi-
date for the next vacancy on the Superior
court bench.
—The probe that the President pro-
poses to run into the Standard oil has
probabiy been so well ‘‘greased’’ that it
will not burt anything very much.
—Mayor PRICE, of Wilkesbarre, who
bas just sentenced a tramp to wo hours in
a bath tub, makes it plain that there is no
scarcity of water in Luzerne county.
—'I'he pension roll has reached the
highest mark ever attained. Still there
are many off the rolls who should be there
— and many on who should not be there.
—Whatever may be the actual terms
upon which Japan has proposed peace with
Russia it is only reasonable to suppose that
the Mikado demands quite a large piece of
something.
—Dont be foolish. Don’t be tempted
by the rise in U. 8. Steel stocks. If you
have a little money invest it legitimately.
Nobody without great wealth has any
business to gamble in stocks.
—Chillicothe, Mo., needn’t swell up
because it has a man who has contracted to
eat a quail a day for thirty days. We
have several right here in Bellefonte who
could eat thirty quail in one day.
—In Kentucky the drouth has oansed
a very alarming falling off in supply of
milk. This report is tantamount to an
admission that they water their milk in
Kentucky, which is more than they do
with their whiskey.
Women’s rights advocates will not be
very prompt to jump to the front of the
platform and claim MRS, CAssiE CHAD-
WICKS financial adventires as trinmphs of
womanly sagacity and business acumen.
—Admiral DEWEY wisely declined
to mix in that north sea arbitration.
If President ROOSEVELT bad some of the
Admiral’s sensible notions about staying
_ at home and minding his own business
how safe we would all feel.
~—Those banks out in Obio that aie
failing with such unfaltering regularity
seem to have lost sight of the fact that
ROOSEVELT was elected only a little less,
than a month ago. These are the prom-
ised prosperity times and we can’t stand
for bust. ups.
—After living with a man for nineteen
. years only to have him desert her for
another fair (2?) enchantress we don’t
blame the ‘‘lady’’ who jumped all overa
lawyer in the Centre county conrt on Tues-
day because he addressed-her as the wife'of
the deserting scalawag. :
—J udge LoVE’s last term of court in
Centre connty was only three days long.
There will he no court next week because
there are no cases for trial ; a state of af-
fairs not so much to he credited to moral
reform in the county as to the diplomacy
of the lawyers who for political reasons did
not enter cases before the election.
—The indictment of JoSEPH LEITER for
taking armed men into Illinois will prob-
ably not result in any severe punishment
of the young millionair. Were the law
to take its course, however, it might bea
warning to men of that class that under
our form of government all men have
equal rights that caonot be denied them
at the point of the bayonet.
— When Secretary of Agriculture WIL-
soN was handing out tbat compliment for
the hens cf the United States for laying
twenty-billion eggs a year he might have
said something about the roosters. While
they can hardly be credited with directly
effecting the egg out put—like the Repub-
lican party however they have a sharp
eye to the infant industry.
—There seems no be no doubt as to
who was elected Governor of Colorado,
but Governor PEABODY has fallen so
deeply in love with the office that he
thinks of fighting before giving it up.
The thing to do with PEABODY is to run
him out at the point of a bayonet. That
would be giving him a little of his own
medicine.
—Thongh there are so few of us left,
and the good Lord knows we need all the
comfort and sympathy we can get, here
comes the ‘‘most nokindest cut of all”
from a Pittsburg woman who is suing her
hasband for divorce because he isa Demo-
Without any of the offices,
The plunder or the spoils,
Lovely women @’en denies us
Our matrimonial toils.
—The Nashville American is out with
advice to boys not to leave the farm. Ib
says : ‘‘I'he wise young man will remain
on the farm. It is better than perishing
by inches in the cities.”” The reopening
of this question recalls to mind one of
the effusions of our friend WiLniam I.
SworPE, when he undertook to butt into
journalism in Clearfield county throogh
the Rafisman’s Journal, some years ago.
He had a lovely column leader one morn-
in which he advised the young men to
remain on the farm. About the only com-
ment it ever occasioned oame from the
Falls Creek Herald and it was, naturally,
CHARLEY BANGERT who was mean enough
$0 ask the embryo editor if he bad dis-
covered hie own mistake too late. The
blow ended WILLIAM'S editorial career
and he went right back to his old job of
being ‘‘the Boy Orator of the Snsgue-
hanna.”
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_VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 2,
1904.
NO. 47.
The Cabinet Dinners.
The President has issued a new social
regulation in Washington. That is to say
the ‘‘cabinet dinners’’ which have come
to be regarded as aj conspicuous feature of
the social life of the National capital are
to be conducted on lines different from
those laid down by his predecessors. The
cabinet dinners of the past were given in
turn by each of the cabinet ministers and
the guests were the President and his wife
and the cabinet colleagues of the host of
the occasion. The cabinet dinners of the
future will be given in the order of their
official rank by members of the cabinet
and the principal guest will still be the
President. But the other guests will be
others than cabinet ministers and will be
practically chosen by the President him-
self.
The reasons for this change are left to con-
jecture and various have been given. An
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary
suggests that the influencing canse was the
absence of mental fertility which requires
that ove joke can serve on several occa-
sions. Another insinuates that the scarc-
ity of finery in female dress made the old-
fashioned cabinet dinner monotonous and
still others have advavced other theories
more or less plausible. But to our mind
the reason which worked the result is that
vanity in the President which makes him
covet opportunities for parade. Nine din-
ners in one season limited in personnel to
the members of the present cabinet would
beyond question grow stupid and the ab-
sence of the gay trappings of the diplo-
matic corps woald be intolerable to
ROOSEVELT.
The first of these functions will be
“pulled off”’ in a few days, according to
the Washington correspondents, and will
be at the residence of Secretary HAY.
Necessarily the principal diplomatists of
the city will be present and it will afford
the President a splendid chance to show
his intellectual paces. The foreigners will
be adorned with all sorts of costly decora-
tions and we wouldn’t be in the least sar-
prised if even ROOSEVELT were to appear
in the uniform of the army or navy with
medals and gilt braid fixed about him in
the most attractive manner. This first
event will of conrse sort of set the pace for
those to folloly and as the participants get
used to the mew couditions the pace will
incre®se in velocity and become more strik-
ing in color.
——The Republican voters of the Bed-
ford-Blair congressional district must have
had serious and numerous doubts as to
JNo. M. REyYNoLDS, their candidate for
Congress. The vote given him was just
thirteen thousand less than that given to
ROOSEVELT in the counties comprising the
district. But even with this snub the
Bedford county renegade will march back
to Washington with the same strut and
assurance that he entered the capitol city
as Mr. CLEVELAND’S assistant commis-
sioner of pensions, and will belie his whole
life time professions by voting for the
steals and wrongs that he so bitterly and
vehemently denounced, when he was
thought to he an honest and an honorable
man. There are people so lacking in their
general make up that they do not know
when they befoul themselves, and the Bed-
ford congressman is an excellent specimen
of that class.
Odell and Piatt.
We get information from the New York
newspapers that Sepator PLATT and
Governor ODELL of New York ‘don’t
speak as they pass by,”” now. There has
been a quarrel on between them for more
than a year and it has been increasing in
bitterness. But during the campaign
they worked together like ‘‘brothers at a
huskiog bee.”” Itis surprising, therefore,
to hear so soon after the election that they
don’t even nod to each other but simply
look the other way. Even the cohesive
force of public plunder fails to keep them
in harmony.
There is very little about Governor
O DELL to admire. He is essentially a
selfish politician and spoilsman. There is
a good deal in Senator PLATT, moreover,
to dislike. He is likewise a politician of
the mousing variety. But it is said that
he bas the virtue of fidelity to friendships
to recommend him and that certainly
‘‘covers a maltitnde of sins.”’ He has
made a good many political leaders, includ-
ing ODELL, and has never hetrayed any of
them. His ‘Me Too’ response to
CONKLING’S resignation bad the sound of
the voice of a hero.
Still we can’t find it in our heart to
sympathize much with him in his present
quarrel and certain defeat. He knew,
unless he has degenerated into the most
hopeless idiocy, that the success of
ODELL’s candidate for Governor meant
his own immediate political sacrifice. He
knew that ROOSEVELT had joined wish
ODELL in the fight against him and yet he
stultified himself by begging his friends
to strengthen the hands of the opposition
already at his throat. That is poltroonery
of the basest sort and stifles sympathy
completely.
Pennypacker’s Mouth Sealed.
The Governor intends to urge obedience
to the constitution with respect to the
matter of the reapportionment of the State
into senatorial and legislative districts,
according to a recent letter from the Har-
risburg correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press. The constitution requires a reap-
portionment of the State after each decen-
nial census and as there has been no change
in the senatorial districts since 1874 the
mandates of the fundamental law bave
been shamefully neglected. It is gratify-
ing, therefore, to learn shat Governor
PENNYPACKER intends to take the matter
up. It is even more comforting to diszov-
er that he intends to scold the recreant
Legislators for failure of their duty.
But after all doesn’t it look as if Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER is straining at a goat
and swallowing a camel. It is literally
true that the constitution requires the re-
apportionment of the State into legislative
and senatorial districts immediately alter
each decennial census and that the obliga-
tion has been grossly and criminally neg-
lected. Every Senator and Representa-
tive in the Legislature at every session
since has subscribed a solemn oath to ‘‘sup-
port, obey and defend’ the constitution
and unless he has performed his part in
the work, he has committed perjury. But
even if the worst comes to the worst Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER has no moral right
to censure him. The Governor has no
license to point the finger of scorn at any-
body.
The one point upon which the coustitu-
tion of the State of Pennsylvania is par-
ticularly explicit is that of filling vacancies
in the office of Senator in Congress. Arti-
cle 2, section 4 of the fundamental law of
the State reads: ‘‘In case of a vacancy in
the office of United States Senator from this
Commonwealth, in a recess between ses-
sions, the Governor shall convene the two
Houses, by proclamation on notice not ex-
ceeding sixty days, to fill the same.” In:
stead of fulfilling that mandate upon the
death of Senator QUAY, ‘‘in a recess he-
tween the sessions,”” Governor PENNY-
PACKER allowed the President of the
Pennsylvania railroad to fill the vacancy .
and he is therefore as much perjured as if :
be had gone into conrt and given false evi-
denee in a cause at war.
Pennypacker Against Reform.
Governor PENNYPACKER will give no
moral or material support to the move-
ment begun by some Philadelphia clergy-
men for bhalliot reform legislation. He
doesn’t believe that political conditions are
as bad as they have been described and
that anyway he must be convinced by evi-
dence that the registry lists have been pad-
ded before he will recommend legislation
to prevent the padding. SAMUEL SALTER
wounldn’t bave been so absurd. He
woaldn’t have questioned the padding, for
it is so notorious that school children dis-
cuss it. But in other respects Mr. SALTER
would bave probably done just about what
the Governor did.
Governor PENNYPACKER doesn’t want
honest elections any more than Mr. SAL-
TER wants ballot reform legislation. Both
gentlemen want machine victories by
majorities so vast that the most disrepu-
table men may remain in public life. The
Governor has never gone to the length of
stuffing ballot boxes, but that is probably
for the reason that it wasn’t necessary,
rather than because he is opposed to that
method of conducting elections. But he
is in no material respect different morally
from SALTER and if he were less stupid
and more courageous he might have been
chosen by the machine managers to per-
form some of their crooked work.
There is no evil so great and so palpable
as election frauds, but no legislation of a
preventive character is.likely to be enacted
daring PENNYPACKER’S term of office. He
still cherishes the ambition to sit on the
Supreme court beuch and will give the re-
mainder of his term in the office of Govern-
or to the basest uses that can serve the
machine in consideration that he will be
put upon the bench at the expiration of
his gubernatorial tenure. That being true
it was a waste of time for the clergymen to
invite his co-operation. He has nothing in
common with them. The SALTERS are in
his class.
Huntingdon county boasts of a
Shirleysburg citizen who, at the recent
election, cast his sixty-sixth vote, and
people over there think it a matter worth
talking about. It might be if there was
vot other places that can discount this
work many many times. It took the
Huntingdon county veteran eighty-seven
years to vote the number of ballots stated,
while the SAM SALTERs, and other Re-
publican majority makers of Philadelphia,
think it a poor days work if they don’t
get in that many at every election.
——Treasurer MATTHUES is out with the
bi-ennial bluff that the Treasury will not
stand any extravagant appropriations by
the next Legislature. The next Legis-
lature, however, will plunder to its heart's
content, the condition of the Treasury
being a secondary consideration.
Profligacy in the Air.
It the congressional program for the
coming session of Congress remains un-
changed, there will bea big hole punched
into the treasury reserve during the next
fiscal year. Every Depar tment asked for
increased appropriations this year as
compared with last which broke all previ-
ous records and now we are informed that
Representative BURTON, of Ohio, chair-
man of the committee on rivers and
harbors, intends to introducea river and
harbor bill which will make its more or
less profligate predecessors ‘‘look like
thirty cents.’” Infact BURTON intends to
contribute to every community which has
a stream of any kind.
Out of this generous measure of Con-
gressman BURTON’S the city of Philadel-
phia expects to get a matter of $2,500,000
for the purpose of deepening the Dela-
ware channel to thirty-five feet. As
we took occasion to say some months
ago, there is a good deal of nonsense in
this scheme for the deepening of the
Delaware channel. The ostensible pur-
pose is to promote commerce between for-
eign countries and our own metropolis.
But the real idea is to create a fund out
of which to pay for criminal political
services. The same Congressmen who ask
for so vast a sum to deepen the channel in
the interest of commerce will vote against
any tariff reduction which would increase
the commerce vastly more and cost noth-
ing.
No one would 1ejoice more over the
commercial expansion of Philadelphia than
ourselves. It has always been our pleasure
to contribute in every available way to
the prosperity of that city. But a com-
munity which not only tolerates but en-
courages political immorality of so gross a
character as to attract the notice of the
whole world hardly deserves the help of
an outsider. Moreover the business men
of Philadelphia have themselves driven
away their best customers. There was a
time when it was the supply station for the
entire South and now a self-respecting
Southern gentleman is ashamed to visit
the city.
Roosevelt’s Fair Promises.
President ROOSEVELT is promising all
popularity. Immediately after the
election he said he would do every-
thing possible to please the South and
reconcile the people of that section to his
election. On his way to St Louis, the
other day, he went a step further. He
declared in a speech delivered in Rich-
mond, Indiana, that his purpose is to be
President of all the people, of all Ameri-
cans, of whatever party. But when he
reached S§. Louis and bad his vanity fed
for a day or two the sheep’s clothing fell
off and the person of the wolf stood re-
vealed. :
ROOSEVELT will never be anything ex-
cept a seotional President. It was he who
deliberately incited race prejudice during
the recent campaign. He knew that it
might lead to a destructive race war and
the sacrifice of a vast number of lives, but
he didn’t mind that. His inordinate
ambition was vastly stronger than his
love of country or kind and he proceeded
with a policy which he accurately estimat-
ed would benefit himself and he didn’t
care what it cost. The lives of his comn-
trymen and the prosperity of his country
are matters of little concern to THEODORE
RoosEVELT. His personal ambitions are
of great importance. i
Weare always ready to pay deference
to the great office to which President
ROOSEVELT has been chosen and in so far
as opportunity presents itself, to pay re-
spect to the man who occupies that office.
Therefore if President ROOSEVELT will
even measureably fulfill his obligations
under the constitution and the law and in
some part carry out his pledge to be the
President of all the people, without dis-
tinction as to parties, we shall most cheer-
fally pay him the tribute of acknowledge-
ment. But we have no such expectation.
We look for nothing except the big stick
and the bully and shat will be disgraceful.
Don’t Expect Anything There.
Governor PENNYPACKER don’t seem
to know anything about election frauds
in Philadelphia. This isa matter that a
Chief Executive of a great Commonwealth
would naturally be supposed to be interest-
ed in, even to the extent of investigating
and ascertaining for himself if there were
any tinth in the allegations. But not so
with Mr. PENNYPACKER. He would
huut bugs in Wetzel’s swamp from morn-
ing til night. He world delve into old
cupboards and wade through attic dust to
hunt up useless relics of by-gone days,
but when it comes to looking up frauds
against the election laws of the State that
has honored him by making him its Gov-
ernor, he dismisses the whole subject
with the simple statement that the “‘proof
must be furnished him,’”’ before he will
‘‘give any attention’’ to the charge.
It is a question whether a Governor with
so little idea of what is due from him to
sorts of things to increase his personal
the State, or what his duties are when his
attention is called to the disgraceful wrongs
that are perpetrated against the Common-
wealth avhose honor has been placed in his
keeping, is worth denouncing, even for a
failure to perform a plain duty. And itis
another question, whether the present
Executive of the State would do anything
in this matter were the most undoubted
proof of all that has been charged about
Philadelphia election frands furnished
him. PENNYPACKER has benefitted by
these frauds. The politicians closest to
him are the men who order and pay for
their committal. The party that gave
him the position he holds profits by them,
and it is useless to look to him to either
attempt to uncover or call public attention
to them.
In the work of doing honor to
the State, of purifying its elections, of
making it better laws, or in any line cal-
culated to elevate the public services, the
present Governor is not to be counted in.
His forte is not]to do honorable things in
an honorable way for the honor of the
Commonwealth and the good of the people,
It is rather to squeak at the newspaper
for exposing frauds, to belittle all efforts
at righting wrong, and to stand back of
political grafters who have both hands in
the public treasury, as he has been doing
in one instance at least that can be named
if necessary.
——Many a man who has a fat bank ac-
count today will find it becoming mighty
lean as Christmas draws near.
But It's What They Voted For.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The president, on his way to close the
St. Louis exposition, seems to be a presi-
dent misemployed, as there seems to be no
particular reason for his attention to such
a function. Nor would there be to any
other president, but it is a constitutional
need of our president to go whenever and
wherever he fancies. He loves to be be-
fore the people and we can readily under-.
stand how great a tempation he has at
present to be taking a triumphal march,
as his descent upon St. Lonis may be
described to be.
His admirers claim that he was reelected
by his personal popularity, and in default
of any better reason this may as well be
assumed to be the canse as ‘any other. A$
any rate there is nothing and no one to
dispute it and Mr. Roosevelt be. as
disput to be the ort of presid i
people like and that any ‘performance he
undertakes is under the protection . of
their approval. So that if he seems to be
going to St. Louis, where he has no busi-
ness to be and leaving Washington, where
his business is, we may assume that he
knows his business better than we do and
that the people will believe that be is
strictly attending to it.
Chance for Prohibition.
From The New York Press,
Steps have been taken which are des-
tined to do more for the cause ef temper-
ance than Dr. Swallow and all his follow-
ers. Certain railroads, moved, no doubt,
by the large number of railroad accidents
in the course of the past year, have made
regulations prohibiting to their employes
the use of intoxicating liquors while on
duty and the frequenting of barrooms at
all times. Also insurance actuaries have
been at work on figures which show that
the total abstainer, contrary to what had
been supposed, is longer lived, as a rule,
than those who use liquor even moderate-
ly; and the insurance companies are now
devising a plan by which abstainers shall
be insured at lower rates than others.
The railroads and the insurance compa-
nies are working for their own pockets,
with no sentiment about the matter; but
they will accomplish what the prohibition-
ists, who are all sentiment, cannot. They
will place an every-day money premium in
a concrete form upon abstinence, thus edu-
cating from the bottom and not like the
prohibitionists, repressing from the top.
Advice that Democarts Should Heed.
From Judge Parker's Letter to Democrats.
‘“T'o accomplish much in this direction,
[party success], we must forget the diffi-
culties of the past, if any one suspects his
neighbor of treachery let him not hint of
his suspicion. If he knows he has deserted
ue, let him not tell it. Our forces have
been weakened hy divisions. We have
quarreled at times over non-essentials.
It we would help the people, if we would
furnish an organization through which they
may be relieved of a party that has grown
so corrupt that it will gladly enter into
partnership with the trusts to secure
moneys for election purposes, we must
forget the differences of the past and begin
this day to build up wherever it may be
needed a broad and effective organization.
And we must by constant teaching, through
the press and from the platform, apprise
the people of the way the vicious tariff
circle works,”
A Baffiing Cry.
From the Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
The democratic party is not disrupted
hy Taesday’s defeat. It is not disorganiz-
ed. There is occasion for thanksgiving
that it is pot ‘‘reorganized.”’ It is not
republicanized. The country has one
political party which is an organized
system of spoils .and venality, and one
is enough. In the next campaign the
democratic party will renew the battle for
principles. It will find a candidate big
enough to lead. It will adopt a platform
that will be a pronouncement of principles
rather than a bid for votes. It will strive
to deserve to win. It will work for
victory—beocause of the opportunity that
victory brings, not for the material pers
quisites, not for ‘‘the loaves and fishes.”
morning. He
Spawls from the Keystolie.
—Boggs township, Clearfield county,boasts
of a man 55 years old who is the father of 18
children. And last Sunday there was &
wedding in the township in which the bride
was but 14 years old.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has had
several thousand locust trees planted on land
near Duncannon and are now having a simi-
lar number planted near Newport, to be used
in later years for ties. :
—The Pennsylvania railroad has a special
officer running on the passenger trains on
the Tyrone division. They are determined
to break up the rowdyism which resulted in
the assault upon conductor Snyder a few
weeks ago. :
—Ira Gray, of Spangler, Cambria county,
was robbed at the world’s fair the other
day of a wallet containing $300 and his rail”
road tickets and he caused the arrest of a
saloon keeper named Thomas Fouchs on a
charge of robbery.
—Charles Corss, one of the oldest practi-
tioners at the Clinton county bar, died. sud-
denly Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock at
his home in Lock Haven. His death was
due to acute indigestion and he had only
been ill a few days. :
—The Buffalo Valley Telephone company
is the name of a local telephone company
that has commenced to build its lines in
Union county. The lines will extend
through every section of the county now
covered by the United Telephone and Tele-
graph company. John Ruhl is superintend-
ing the construction of the lines.
—A farmers’ institute, under the auspices
of the Pennsylvania State Board of Agri-
culture, will be held at Warriorsmark, on
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 9th and 10th,
1904. An interesting and instructive pro-
gram has been arranged. No admission will
be charged and no collections taken. Every-
body is cordially invited to attend.
. —The Pennsylvania company last Friday
announced that it had closed contracts for
building of 5,000 freight cars. This is inde-
pendent of the recent orders for 6,800 freight
cars on its lines east and west of Pittsburg,
which are to replace the worn-out or dam-
aged cars. The cars just ordered will be an
addition to the equipment of the lines west
of Pittsburg.
—The 697 pupils at the Indian school Iast
Thursday had a fine Thanksgiving dinner.
‘An idea of the dinner can be had when it is
known that 72 turkeys, 70 quarts of cran-
berries, 700 bananas, 7 bushels of sweet and
8 of Irish potatoes, 12 dozen bunches of cel-
ery, 40 pumpkins made into pies, 40 pounds
cheese and 1,350 doughnuts were among the
things that went to make up the dinner.
—Speculation concerning the existence of
oil in Somerset county, a new field,{is at an
end. The fluid was struck at a depth of
3,000 feet late Tuesday afternoon of last
week, three miles west of Stoyestown on the
farm of D. E. Long, where the Lincoln Oil
and Gas company has been drilling during
the past sixty days. The product has aver-
aged a steadysoutput of six barrels per hour
since the flow was struck.
—Wm. G. Glenn, one of the best coroners
ever occupying the office in Blair county,
died at his home in Altoona early Sunday
‘had been in bad health for
sev 5; uni a wick ago wa stricken
with pnenmonia which caused his death. He
was born in Chester, Delaware county, and
was 60 years old on the 25th of March last.
He had lived in Altoona thirty-four years
and had been coroner six years.
—~Roy Fraker, anative and former resi-
dent of Altoona and one of the most expert
stenographers in Pittsburg, committed sui-
cide Saturday morning by shooting himself
in the head. The deed was committed in a
room of the republican headquarters build-
ing, Grant and Diamond streets, where he
was found some time later with the revolver
in one hand and in the other a farewell note.
Domestic troubles are said to have been the
cause for the rash act.
— The store of Bratton & Ross, at the min-
ing town of Faunce, -along the Clearfield
and Southern extension of the New York
Central railroad, was broken into at an early
hour Thursday morning, robbed and then
burned down. Goods from the store were
found scattered about the woods. The fire
spread to the surrounding buildings, consum-
ing the station and offices of the New York
Central railroad, the postoflice, warerooms,
and numerous other buildings.
—The trouble existing between the Penn-
sylvania Coal and Coke company and the
United Mine Workers of America over the
matter of the former collecting 50 cents per
month from the wages of non-English speak-
ing miners who boarded in company houses
with boarding bosses, has been settled. The
company after several meetings with Presi
dent Gilday and District President William
Currie, of the miners’ organization, agreed
to abolish the practice.
—William Blessing and bis brother were
arrested at Lewistown last Friday night by
Sheriff Bricker, charged with the larceny of
a boat from the Juniata river near Peters-
burg. They were from Steelton and had
heen trapping along the river and creek
banks in Huntingdon county. They had se-
cured the pelts of more than 700 fur-bearing
animals. They were under arrest accused of
stealing the boat to carry themselves and
their load to Harrisburg.
—More than one-half the school districts
in Pennsylvania have been paid their share
of the school fund for the fiscal year
ending May 31st next. State Treasurer
Matheus expects to pay all of them during
the present year. The exact amount paid to
the 'schools is $2,381,358, leaving less than
$2,000,000 due them. Of the entire appro:
priation of $5,500,000 for this year the public
schools proper will get $5,212,500; the nor-
mal schools, $237,500, and the township high
schools, $50,000.
—On Wednesday morning last the Bitum -
inous National bank of Winburne moved
into and opened up and are doing business
in their handsome edifice at that place. Both
President Somerville and cashier J. Malcolm
Laurie, two of the most popular gentlemen
in Clearfield county, feel justly prond of
their new handsome building. Xt is a nicelr
finished bank, all the latest and most mod-
ern furniture is to be found in it, the bank-
ing room proper with an elegant safe and
the latest improved vault, also an office that
is right up to date.